Conference Finals and Billy is Scared

Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld

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Basketball, Nba, Pro Basketball, Amir Blumenfeld, Comedy, Sports

4.9 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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16 teams entered, 4 remain. Is Billy optimistic about his New York Knicks? Does Amir think Minnesota can actually win an NBA championship? Did Porzingis have Covid? We try to answer all these questions and more!

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0:00.0	This is a head gum original.
0:06.7	Welcome back to Buckets, two rounds down. Two rounds to go. Let's talk about it with Billy Schofuri.
0:15.1	Go get bucket, bucket. Go New York, go New York.
0:18.3	Final four. Wow. First time in my adult life?
0:22.2	25 years.
0:23.5	75 years as far as I'm concerned.
0:25.8	Do you remember 1999?
0:28.1	Like, was that a big deal?
0:29.5	I was like 16.
0:31.9	Like, I was just like, I had so many other like hormonal things going on in my life.
0:35.8	It didn't matter as much to you.
0:37.8	Was that heat nix? Was that like when Alan Houston hit that shot that bounced and bounced
0:42.4	and bounced and drops? That might have been in the first round. There were an eighth seed. Yeah.
0:45.9	I think that was to beat the heat in the first round. So even when we experience extreme joy,
0:50.3	we were still the eight seed. Yeah. You know, it's like, so we never had a dominant year where we just kept being good.
0:55.7	Yeah, somebody mentioned in one of the thousands of podcasts I listened to, like, when the
0:59.7	Knicks are good, there's always one team that's slightly better.
1:02.3	Sure.
1:02.7	This is like the first year where it's like, are we maybe the best team?
1:05.9	I guess OKC is that slightly better team. I tell you, I think we beat the team that everyone thought was going to
1:10.9	win the NBA championship. For sure. Yeah. And I mean, you didn't have Boston, you didn't have
1:15.8	New York and six on your prediction card. I mean, only Shalame had the Nixon six. Like, and shout
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